Quote: Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack! [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: He is the very pineapple of politeness! [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Those that vow the most are the least sincere. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Easy writings curse is hard reading. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: They only babble who practise not reflection. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. [Richard Sheridan]
Quote: An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says
A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--
He's here! He's there! he's everywhere!
An me! he's nowhere! [Richard Sheridan]